brian wark

[Ben Sellers @MrBenSellers]

So, @BBCNews. This isn’t the story & you would know it if you did any actual journalism at all. This is the story:

Maccabi Tel Aviv are notorious for having a far right / fascist fan base, extreme even in Israel. (1/4)

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

World beating UK, energy prices nearly double anywhere else.

Also the UK, every energy firm making 4-10x profits.

I wonder if they are related?

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

Watch as the UK/US 'special relationship' turbocharges corporate governance in free zones, SEZs, and Freeports next evolutionary stage is 'free cities' where citizenship by contract, and 1 vote equals 1 share will destroy what's left of democracy. Trump's Project 2025 refuted by Trump now given the Greenlight.

[RMT @RMTunion]

Don't. Use. Trainline. 🔽

[MSM Monitor @msm_monitor]

Mark Drakeford exposed the Tory UK Govt's sabotage of Scotland's deposit return scheme. Drakeford revealed the UK Govt had already accepted glass would be part of the Welsh DRS before demanding glass be excluded from Scotland's DRS at the eleventh hour.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Notice a pattern of behaviour by the establishment media that told us Kamala Harris was poised for a narrow win.

For more than two years, that same establishment media told us Ukraine would win if only we sent a few more bombs/ tanks/ planes.

Over the past year, that same establishment media told us that Israel wasn't committing a genocide, even as we watched it kill and maim 10,000s of children in Gaza. That same media told us that our leaders were working tirelessly for peace, even as they sent Israel more and more weapons to kill and maim.

The establishment media isn't there to report the world as it is. It is there to shape our consciousness of it – to the benefit of the establishment.

It is there to sell us pipe-dreams.

It is there to buy time.

It is there to make us believe next time will be different.

It is there to buy our docility.

It is there to conceal the fact that our leaders are sociopaths, more committed to lining their pockets than saving the only world we have.

[MSM Monitor @msm_monitor]

BBC Scotland, Scottish Labour etc aren't Scottish. They're franchises of English organisations. They're like your local McDonalds, staffed by Scots but controlled from elsewhere.

Sarwar has as much say over 'Scottish' Labour policies as a McDonald's manager has over his/her branch menu. None. The McDonald's manager can say he wants haggis on the menu. Unless bosses in the USA give the nod, he's fooling nobody. Likewise, Sarwar's job is to implement the decisions taken in London.

It's the same with BBC Scotland. The station is just a franchise. It has a pro-British establishment, not a Scottish, culture. Staff know what they have to do in order to thrive within that culture. It's why some stories are amplified and others marginalised. It's why some staff rise up the greasy pole and others don't.

[David @Zero_4]

George Monbiot: “I’m not going to take lessons in climate from someone from Policy Exchange which is funded by the oil industry”

David Goodhart (Policy Exchange): “It isn’t”

GM: “I can demonstrate that it is”

DG: “Anyway, that’s not what we’re here to discuss”

#PoliticsLive

[MSM Monitor @msm_monitor]

To all those Scottish Labour folk insisting free tuition remains a cast iron pledge. You said the same about the winter fuel payment.

Sarwar will do the same to students as he's done to pensioners.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Wes Streeting is considering PFI 2.0: it could end the NHS as we know it.

Previously, the NHS received £13bn private investment, repayment is over £80bn.

PFI is a scam. Govt guarantees corporate profits. Govt can borrow and invest at much lower cost.
https://t.co/GgEWtGFoHv

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

When Iranian police beat women in the streets for standing up for their rights, the world - and Germany - rightfully condemned it.

But those condemnations ring very hollow now as German police beat and kick elderly women for objecting to Israel's slaughter of Palestinians.

[The Ayrshire Separatist @DanielJMath1]

Just a reminder that no matter what he says or what the BBC/ITV or Daily Record say @AnasSarwar is responsible for absolutely fuck all in Scotland. Yes. He actually says that he is.
He’s a fucking grifting charlatan.

[Danny Baker @prodnose]

No matter what else happens during Labour's time - these are the Conservatives. Having a right laugh.
While ordering the nation not to visit dying relatives, sit down in a local park or have family visit.
Repugnant entitled gargoyles who want you now to forget this.

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

A terrible terrible look…

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

It's just been announced Nigel Farage is once again in the USA on another jolly. The good people of Clacton however are still waiting for their MP to set up a constituency office, to agree times and places for a surgery or even establish an email address or phone number.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Conservative MP Mel Stride claims PIP benefit is thousands of pounds per month.

No it is an absolute maximum of £780 a month, and most people only get about £250.

Meanwhile he claims £1,250 a month in rent on his expenses

Lying, thieving b******

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

James Dyson says Reeves' budget is 'spiteful'. But it's not half as spiteful as sacking thousands of British workers and exploiting cheap labour in poor countries.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Retired Jewish professor Haim Bresheeth, a child of Holocaust survivors and founder of the Jewish Network for Palestine, was arrested under a UK anti-terrorism law after speaking at a recent Palestine solidarity protest in London.

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

If everyone who has been grateful for the NHS over the past 76 years followed and retweeted we’d reach a million by midnight

Please take just two seconds to show you’re right behind NHS staff

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

🇮🇱Pro-Israel lobby groups and individuals have donated to 13 out of Labour’s 25 cabinet members, Declassified has found.

The list of recipients includes Keir Starmer, his deputy Angela Rayner, chancellor Rachel Reeves, and foreign secretary David Lammy.
https://t.co/xEdyiQw6zs